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Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

  • San Jose, California, USA
  • On-site
  • 3+ Years
  • First seen Nov 15, 2026

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TikTok had H-1B petitions approved for 454 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. See the record

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Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation at TikTok, an on-site role based in San Jose, California, USA. Experience level: 3+ Years. First seen on RealAnalystJobs on 15 November 2026, read from TikTok's own careers page (TikTok), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. TikTok has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role).

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About this role

Our E-commerce Recommendation Team is responsible for building up and scaling our recommendation system to provide the best experience for our TikTok users. Responsibilities: • Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms. • Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok. • Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently. • Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: • MS/PhD in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience. • 3+ years of working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation algorithm, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields. Preferred Qualifications: • Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, like TensorFlow or PyTorch. • Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems

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